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Перевод: lull
[существительное] затишье; перерыв ; временное затишье; временное успокоение; [глагол] убаюкивать; баюкать; укачивать; усыплять; усыпить; успокаивать; рассеивать; стихать; суметь внушить
Тезаурус:
- Bogle the Locksmith was sick on a waiter's sleeve, taking advantage of the temporary lull.
- She seemed willing to go to almost any length to appease, lull his irritation to rest, contain all the exasperation by taking it within herself.
- Leslie, however, could go one better: "It must be nice," he replied, in a piece of monumental understatement, contained in a letter written during a lull in the fighting at Wadi Akarit, "to ramble round the Pilgrim Way.
- In a brief lull we moved quickly down to the river and followed it back down the valley.
- In the deceptive lull of the Phoney War, Cardiff High School was very much as Goronwy Rees remembered it:
- There will probably be a lull over the winter, followed by a resurgence of activity next spring.
- The music, combined with the aroma of the oils, began to lull me (I am not sure about Charlotte!) into a meditative state.
- Until the start of the civil war, in the summer of 1918, there was a relative lull in the social conflicts during which the Bolsheviks shared power with the Left Social-Revolutionaries and at the same time attempted to obtain the collaboration of some sections of the bourgeoisie and industrial managers in their efforts to revive industry.
- About mid-February there was a lull in the bombing, and the recreation room could be used.
- There was a feeling that something was in the air, that it was the lull before the storm.
- Harsh measures - putting an entire community under an absolute curfew for a continuous lengthy period of time, demolishing homes, uprooting olive or citrus trees, physical intimidation and terror tactics employed by raiding army units, shooting, killing, cutting off water or electricity supplies and telephone links to villages or towns, mass arrests, intimidatory interrogation techniques - can either create a temporary lull or activate an eruption.
- The vase painting shows Ajax and Achilles getting ready for their equivalent of k2 paddling during a lull in the Trojan War.
- In the early summer of 1965, in the short lull between the Commons debate and the issuing of Circular 10/65, I enjoyed an hour in the early evening drinking a pint of beer alongside the Thames with one of the senior educational administrators of Oxfordshire, who later became a Chief Education Officer himself.
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